Interested in our Spring 2012 course offerings? See https://www.beloit.edu/english/spring2012/

The English Department is also pleased to welcome three new visiting faculty members for 2011-12: Christi Clancy, Jennifer McGovern, and Rebecca Hazelton Stafford! Their profiles and accomplishments may be found on our faculty page.

In addition, English recently hosted Giles Foden as our visiting Mackey Chair. Foden is the author of The Last King of Scotland, Turbulence, and Ladysmith, among other acclaimed works. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia; see  http://www.uea.ac.uk/lit/People/Academic/Giles+Foden#info

Finally, check out two new titles recently published by our faculty:

• Tom McBride and Ron Nief, The Mindset Lists of American History: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think is Normal (Wiley, 2011).

• Tamara Ketabgian, The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (University of Michigan Press, 2011).